Well, I'd rather say nothing is going on... except some people having Polk Salad for dinner.

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Where do they have such pronounciation Joe imitates?

Down South... Tony Joe White, the author of this song, is known as one of the representatives of swamp rock, which originated there. By the way, Joe also imitates a similar kind of pronunciation in many other songs (Nobody Loves You, Pick A Bale O' Cotton, Cotton Fields etc.)

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Is "gators got you granny" a teaser?

Might be... But maybe they actually did? Why not?

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Does a plant "polk salad" really exist?

Yes, I think so. But I've never found it in any dictionary...

By the way, have you heard Elvis' version of the song? _________________Just tell him Big Joe was here this morning
And he was here this morning, yeah, but now he's gone

Oops, I forgot to answer your question about chain-gang (if what I've been writing so far can be called answering...)
A chain-gang is a group of prisoners who are chained together for work outside their prison (e.g. in some mines, etc.) So probably Annie's granny was in some way connected with criminals (was a criminal herself?) But again, this expression might have another meaning in slang... _________________Just tell him Big Joe was here this morning
And he was here this morning, yeah, but now he's gone

And the phrase "her mother was working for a chain-gang", can have another meaning - that she was thier guard (therefore being a bad woman )_________________L'Essentiel est invisible pour les yeux. Saint-Exupéry

After bothering a lot more people I can finally say I understand what this song is about.

It is about a poor family living in Louisiana, that consisted of a Mother, a Father, a Grandmother, a daughter Annie and sons.
They were poor and lived of a vegetable, polk salad.
The Mother was a vicious convicted woman, their father "lazy and no count" and the sons were little thiefs.
So when one day the alligators ate the granny everyone was sorry since nobody was left to teach the kids something good _________________L'Essentiel est invisible pour les yeux. Saint-Exupéry

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